Re: can't seem to find xorg.conf
On Thu, 24 May 2012 15:38:05 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Isn't xorg.conf supposed to be in /etc/X11?
No... since a bunch of years :-)
> I recently reinstalled squeeze on my new AMD64 box and I noticed that
> the login environment in gnome looks grungier than normal - I didn't get
> the cute login box and impressive pictures of the earth taken from space
> followed by shots of parts of the galaxy now and again.......
Describe "grungier" (or better yet, upload a snapshot), although that
looks somehow unrelated to xorg.
> Gnome itself seems to be OK.
>
> I thought maybe gdm or xorg hadn't completely installed or something but
> synaptic thinks they are installed and reinstalling them didn't seem to
> change much.
>
> X is not sussing out my HW191D monitor resolution as it used to.
Run "xrandr -q" and put here the output.
> So I googled this and was reminded that I needed to edit the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and put in the correct resolution which is 1440
> x 900 and try again.
>
> So I fired up a root terminal and did the following:
>
>
>
> root@Vigor15:/home/mikef# cd /etc/X11
> root@Vigor15:/etc/X11# ls -l
(...)
> I can't see xorg.conf in there........
>
> This is a new installation. Maybe I'm looking with my eyes shut.
If you want to correct any aspect of your screen settings, you can use
xrandr or the GNOME display applet instead.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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